The Social Album
Year 3, Semester 6 Final Design Project | 2019
Socio-cultural Centre
Johor Bahru City, Malaysia
Year 3, Semester 6 Final Design Project | 2019
Socio-cultural Centre
Johor Bahru City, Malaysia
The infamous Johorean’s national spirit, the “Bangsa Johor” has instigated a strength in union, solidarity, unity and multi-racial harmony, whatever you call it, the people of Johor feel proud that they were protected under one umbrella irrespective of race, ancestry or background. However, the coexistence of these communities in JB has been taken advantage as people tend to be more parochialism instead of focusing on the bigger picture of the city itself. Thus, the design intention of the City Lobby is to remove this misinterpreted boundary of division between these three communities on site, allowing an intermix of social and cultural differences to foster a strong sense of community not just within their four walls but beyond them as a socially luxurious commodity towards an inclusive culture which values diversity. A place where people of Johor Bahru celebrates the diversity of coexistence, a hearth for positive social and cultural exchange amongst one another, ensuring the state of harmony and appreciative act on the differences and similarities of people.
It is the foundation of the unintentional meet ups with different people of different cultural background, and that the spaces could house a sharing atmosphere of local city dwellers, tourists, visitors and transient users.
The city lobby played a role in fostering a symbiotic relationship called interdependency, between the multiracial community through creating permeable boundaries, which allowed people to communicate, collaborate and connects. Design articulation of spaces revolved around a ‘common ground’ for the communities to share, shared spaces of common interests articulate through path-space relationship and overlapping of spatial identities.
